Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 11:10:26 / September 27, 2019 @ 11:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1268 West, latitude 18.9886 North, depth = 51 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:10:26 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019270035. Event ids that are associated: pr2019270035.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Rincón. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.1268° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9886° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-27 11:10:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-27 20:57:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	132	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6994	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	300	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2019270035	Id of event.
Event Code	2019270035	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019270035,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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